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Nearest Communities to Collyer,
Listed County-By-County

The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Collyer, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Collyer:

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Collyer.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Collyer is located in Trego County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Trego County: Ellis, Gove, Graham, Ness, Rooks, Rush & Sheridan.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Collyer. Of these communities, 19 are located in counties other than Trego County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<2> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Collyer (which is Trego County), we list the counties in alphabetical order and for each of those counties, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Collyer

For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.

  • Trego County   (where Collyer resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.tregocountyks.com/
    • County Seat for Trego:   WaKeeney
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Collyer   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Collyer.
      • Voda
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Voda is located in Trego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Voda
      • WaKeeney
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Fort Downer
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Fort Downer is located in Trego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Downer
      • Trego
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Trego is located in Trego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trego
        • Trego has also been known as:
        • Trego Center
        • Trego Tank
      • Ogallah
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Ogallah is located in Trego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogallah
      • Riga
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Riga is located in Trego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riga
  • Ellis County
  • Gove County
    • County Website:   https://govecountyks.gov/
    • County Seat for Gove:   Gove City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Collyer   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Collyer.
      • Quinter
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Park
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Park is located in Gove County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
      • Grainfield
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Gove City
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Gove City is located in Gove County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gove City
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 68 people
        • Gove City has also been known as:
        • Gove
      • Alanthus ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Alanthus is located in Gove County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alanthus
      • Grinnell
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Grinnell is located in Gove County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grinnell
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 226 people
        • Grinnell has also been known as:
        • Grinnette Springs
  • Graham County
    • County Website:   https://www.grahamcountyks.com/
    • County Seat for Graham:   Hill City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Collyer   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Collyer.
      • Saint Peter
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Saint Peter is located in Graham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Peter
      • Togo
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Togo is located in Graham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Togo
        • Togo has also been known as:
        • Togoland
      • Morland
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Penokee
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Penokee is located in Graham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Penokee
      • Hill City
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Ness County
    • County Website:   https://www.nesscountyks.gov/
    • County Seat for Ness:   Ness City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Collyer   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Collyer.
      • Arnold
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Arnold is located in Ness County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arnold
      • Utica
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Ransom
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Osgood
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Osgood is located in Ness County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osgood
  • Sheridan County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Collyer) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>Our data comes from many sources and some sources are more dependable than others. When we add communities to our Gazetteer, we try to verify that we have the correct location for the community. We mark a community as 'Unverified' when we aren't confident about our data and want to do further checking.

We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now.

Since our Gazetteer contains over 100,000 communities, verifying everything is going to take time. If you find an error or can help us to improve our accuracy, please let us know.
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